In one of the business suburb of Shenzhen (Chinese sister of Hong-Kong), the main street was literally invaded by Apple iPod commercial (see the photo below). This street full of IT shops and stores selling high-tech products, with a miserable little Apple Center of 20m2 which is proposing a limited choice of the famous Apple music box...price being similar to those in Europe... At the opposite, in Hong-Kong, it is simply impossible to enter an computer shop without seeing some iPod models exposed, and here price are more interesting: 250€ for a 15GB iPod, 330€ for 20GB and 420€ for 40GB iPod... Finally the last info is both a good and bad news... I was visiting one of those big IT supermarkets in Hong-Kong, where you can find small IT shops selling components, accessories, libraries and softwares. Of course most of the softwares are illegal copies, with a packaging similar to the original one but with a smaller volume. But I was deeply surprised to see a whole wall reserved for Mac softwares, you could find most of the favorite Mac applications in their last versions: all Adobe, Maya, Macromedia... and everything for 2€/software or package (such as Adobe Creative Suite Standard), all in English version. The most surprising thing for me is that last October in the same shop I could find any Apple software; it was only Windows applications... so I let you conclude what you want... |
